lady's mantle

British  

noun

1. any of various rosaceous plants of the N temperate genus Alchemilla, having small green flowers

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lady's mantle

We pulled fistfuls of rosebay willow, yarrow and lady’s mantle.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2019

In an interview with Vogue, she complained that varieties of Alchemilla, a herbaceous perennial commonly known as lady’s mantle, were “well known in England and, I think, not enough appreciated in America.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2014

Nearby there’s a four-square garden, with fairy roses surrounded by annuals like tulips and alyssum and — typical for Revolutionary War-era homes — herbs, with lady’s mantle and chive among them, and Egyptian onions.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2011

Johnson's "kingspear, Jews-ear, lady-mantle, and lady-bedstraw," are no more proper, than Webster's "bear's-wort, lion's foot, lady's mantle, and lady's bed-straw."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

Rubigo, the ferrugineous powder sprinkled under the leaves frequent in lady's mantle, alchemilla, &c.

From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Darwin, Erasmus